A bill that would overhaul Texas’ college credit transfer system is on its way to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. Senate Bill 25 seeks to help students avoid losing course credits when they transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges and universities. Both houses of the Legislature approved the bill last…
Texas’ big three — Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen — effectively ended the state’s 2019 legislative session Thursday, announcing that the Legislature had reached a deal on school finance reform. With the agreement, the Legislature has settled its three biggest priorities for 2019:…
Just days after advocacy groups filed more than two dozen new sexual harassment charges against the fast-food chain, a group of McDonald’s workers from across the country protested in North Texas on Thursday, demanding better wages, better working conditions and the right to form a union. Fight for $15, a…
When the University of Texas at Arlington announced last month that it would prohibit its fraternities and sororities from holding social events on campus, it joined a growing list of colleges and universities that are taking action against their Greek organizations. Over the last several years, a number of colleges…
While Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spoke with Dallas business leaders Thursday at the Old Parkland hospital campus, dozens of demonstrators lined the street outside, some denouncing him as a fascist despot and others welcoming him to Texas. The far-right head of state was in Dallas to meet with members of…
More than a year after a group of Dallas churches and outreach groups began organizing a system for offering shelter to homeless people on nights when it’s too cold to be outdoors, the Dallas City Council considered the latest version of a plan to allow those groups to do the…
As lawmakers in Austin work out details of a plan to fix the state’s college transfer process, two North Texas institutions are looking to ease that process between their schools. The University of Texas at Arlington and the Dallas County Community College District signed an agreement Friday that they say…
For more than a year, Dallas officials and others have struggled to come up with a plan for offering shelter to homeless people on nights when it’s too cold to sleep outdoors. It’s a problem many other communities have already solved. Across the region and nationwide, other cities offer examples…
A citizens subcommittee tasked with finding short-term help for homeless people in Dallas struggled Thursday to work out a plan for what to do with those people when it’s dangerously cold outside. Ultimately, the Citizens Homeless Commission’s short-term solutions committee settled on a plan to solicit proposals from groups that…
The Texas Senate unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that is designed to make sure college students lose fewer credits when they transfer from one school to another. Senate Bill 25 reorganizes lower-division courses that many students take at community colleges, making it easier for them to predict which ones will…
Even on a good day, dealing with airport parking is nobody’s favorite part of a trip. On Wednesday morning, some travelers at Dallas Love Field encountered an extra headache on top of the typical ones. A round of heavy rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning flooded the ground floor of…
A few minutes after 10 a.m. Tuesday, C. Allen Parker, interim CEO of Wells Fargo, stepped up to a podium in a hotel conference room and began to tell the company’s shareholders what the bank is doing to rebuild customers’ trust after years of scandals. Parker soon lost control of…
A Dallas man says the Dallas Central Appraisal District is discriminating against him and his husband because they’re gay. Keith Yonick says DCAD mishandled the couple’s paperwork for a tax exemption for their new home, refusing to process their homestead exemption until they produced records that aren’t required by law…
This week, the Texas House of Representatives is expected to take up its version of a plan to slow the growth of property tax rates statewide. School officials worry that, depending on what version of that plan makes its way to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, it could mean a major…
On Wednesday afternoon, as forecasts of baseball-sized hail and possible tornadoes rolled in, residents across North Texas scrambled to get their cars under cover and themselves indoors. At Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field, hundreds of flights were canceled, leaving some passengers with time to kill at the…
Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot would like would-be thieves to know that they can’t steal anything they like without fear of prosecution. Last week, Creuzot’s office announced a series of sweeping reforms, including declining to prosecute most low-level marijuana offenses, cases in which someone is found with trace amounts…
Texas is lagging behind other states in the education it offers to its youngest learners, according to a study released Wednesday. But a plan lawmakers are considering to fund full-day prekindergarten statewide could help turn the state’s early learning program in the right direction, one of that study’s authors said…
Campus police are investigating a reported sexual assault at a fraternity house at the University of Texas at Arlington. A female student told Arlington police that she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance early Sunday, said Joe Carpenter, a university spokesman. Because the assault occurred on campus, Arlington police turned…
Dallas police expect to make more arrests in the beating of a transgender woman in the parking lot of an apartment complex in east Oak Cliff. Detectives are reviewing video of the beating to determine how many people were involved, interviewing suspects and working to identify others, said police Lt…
Dallas police have arrested a man in connection with the beating of a transgender woman in the parking lot of an east Oak Cliff apartment complex. Police say Edward Thomas, 29, was involved in a minor traffic accident with Muhlaysia Booker between 5 and 6 p.m. Friday in the parking…
Southwest Airlines is suspending flights aboard the Boeing 737 Max 8 through Aug. 5, the Dallas-based airline announced last week. Aviation officials grounded the aircraft in March after two of the jets crashed in the last year — in October, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the Java Sea…
Last month, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to turn over records showing exactly what state officials were up to earlier this year when they tried to purge nearly 100,000 voters from the state’s rolls. Last week, as the deadline…
